Michel Joelsas
A mother struggles trying to avoid her son of becoming insane like his deceased father, but maybe it's already too late.
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Sobre Girassóis has as its only filming set a condominium in São Paulo, whose main plot is the mourning and transformation derived from the unexpected death of a teenager from the residential complex. Virginia celebrates her 17th birthday in the penthouse where she lives with her parents and the drama unfolds in small narratives that expose the points of view of friends, Virginia's mother and the birthday girl.
